Monthly Archives: October 2009

Foundation Series: Cross-Selling and Upselling

You have an eCommerce site.  You sell products online.  Do you cross-sell additional products?  Do you upsell to better products?  This article explains the difference between cross-sell and upsell, and looks at some real-world data about the effectiveness of both.

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Agile Prioritization: Which Widget?

Your company is building out a toolkit to support third-party developers.  You’ll need a bunch of different types of widgets – combo-boxes, text entry fields, domain-specific controls, etc.  You’ve got a long list of desired controls from your customers.  You’re agile.  What do you build first?

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Modeling User Competency

Perpetually intermediate (competent) users.  Users who briefly exist as novice users and never become experts. Most of your users are competent, and you should design for them.  Competent users have different needs and different expectations than novice or expert users.  How do you know your user’s competency levels, so you can design for them?

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Strategy and Product Roadmaps

Steven Haines, author of The Product Manager’s Desk Reference, recently gave a webinar on effectively using product roadmaps for the Technology Product Management Council at Forrester Research.  You should check it out.

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